Waterfx, Like you I am new to bowhunting and asked questions about shot placement. Someone led me to this link and I think it will help you understand why everyone is so against your proposed neck shot.

http://home.mn.rr.com/deerfever/Anatomy.html

Remember that rifle shot placement is a very different issue. A firearm bullet kills with shock and tissue destruction, while an arrow kills with cutting and blood loss. Your objective is to cause as much blood loss in as short a time as possible to minimize the distance the animal can travel between shot and death. The lungs have a huge amount of veins/arteries/capillaries in a realtively small space, so a wound there causes lots of bleeding. A low, pass-through, lung wound opens up the most possible bleeders and allows blood to drain out of the body cavity quickly. This results in a quick death and an easier tracking job. Your proposed neck shot will only quickly kill the animal if you hit the main arteries or veins in the neck. Since those make up a small proportion of the mass of the neck(as you can see in the anatomy chart) and you cannot see them, you are aiming at a small, concealed target in a part of the deer that is almost always moving . If you don't hit the big bleeders you still have a very good chance of wounding the deer. A wound in the neck that isn't quickly fatal will be a really bad thing. At best the animal may survive after a lot of pain and suffering. It could also slowly bleed to death over a day or two. Worst of all you could damage the throat or jaws so that the animal cannot eat and will starve to death over days if not weeks. A lung hit should put the animal down fast and reliably, plus it puts you in the position of shooting at a large, realtively stable target. Taking a throat shot with a bow is risking a slow and painful death for the animal for very little reward for the hunter. Please don't try it.